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I’m taking a break from reading stuff about political theory and
liberalism and reading, instead, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and
the Deep Origins of Consciousness [amazon]. It turns out Peter
Godfrey-Smith on the octopus brain is more like Jacob Levy on
Montesquieu and intermediacy than I was expecting. (The cover of Levy’s
book is a bit tentacular. Maybe they should have played that up?)